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| July 12, 1964 - the Beatles at the Hippodrome |
Interview with the Beatles
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Worthing Gazette
July 22, 1964
It was an excited Teresa Fry who came into the Gazette office this week. Teresa, art editor of Teen Topics, had managed to secure an interview with The Beatles when they played at Brighton Hippodrome.
Still starry-eyed, Teresa told me, "They were fantastic." She was accompanied by Janet Beck, another member of the Teen Topics staff.
She waited four hours to see the group. "I thought that we would never be able to get in to see them," she said. "The officials at the door were terrible, even when we produced identity cards to prove that we were from a magazine. They seemed quite uninterested. "
The hours of waiting and badgering paid off, however, and the girls were admitted. They had a long talk with Paul and George but were only able to spend a few minutes with John and Ringo, just long enough to get their autographs.
After leaving the Beatles, Teresa and Jane walked calmly out of the stage door only to be met by hordes of screaming fans, all yelling, "They've seen the!. They've seen the Beatles!"
"It was quite frightening, really," said Teresa. "The girls were furious that we had been allowed in, and they had not." Luckily, someone showed Teresa and Janet another exit, and they made their escape unnoticed.
The full story of the girl's interview with Paul and George will be in the next issue of Teen Topics, which, incidentally, will be available anytime now. Teresa explained that with school and college exams, production of the magazine had been held up, "but we are now working really hard to get this issue out as soon as possible."
Note for pop fans, as well as meeting the Beatles, Teresa and Janet, were able to interview the other stars who were appearing at the Hippodrome, The Foremost, The Jinx, and the new Scottish twosome, the McKinley Sisters.
The Beatles
Written by Julia Kitchingham
Worthington Herald
July 17, 1964
Determined not to take the "no" of managers and backstage officials for an answer, Janet Beck and Theresa Fry, both on the staff of Teen Topics, enlisted the help of two other artists appearing with The Beatles at the Brighton Hippodrome on Sunday to get an interview with the group for their magazine.
Janet and Theresa telephoned the McKinley Sisters in their dressing room and asked them to come to the stage door, hoping that they could help them to see the Beatles. While they were talking, Janet told me somebody shouted that The Beatles were just around the corner.
Inside the building, Janet and Theresa made a dash for it. John and Ringo were too busy to talk, but the girls chatted with George and Paul for about 10 minutes. "We couldn't believe it," said Janet. After the interview, the girls watched most of the show from the wings.
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